Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong?
Cricket's family may be ready for their 98-year-old great-grandma to go gently into the good night, but she sure as hell isn't. So when hell comes calling in the form of Delilah, she's ready to sign on the dotted "succubus" line.
Army brat Amanda has spent her life letting everyone else call the shots. With a shiny new contract and a shape-shifting body as tough as titanium, she's ready to call some shots of her own--on the basketball court.
Now roommates at the Lair, this odd couple are ready to set the Regional Office on its ear with history’s first coed demon basketball tournament--and to discover that you're never too old or too shy to find new friendships--or love.
The fourth adventure in the Coed Demons Sluts series!
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I’ll go read my copy of book #1 soon :) This turned out to use the premise for some thoughtful, fun and very readable exploration of love and the consequences of long life - among other things. Thumbs-up.
How I love such rounded great characters like Cricket, and like Amanda. The title almost threw me off, but the story is great. It was ok to read out of order.
Okay, I LOVED Cricket. She's so full of life at, what was it, 98? I loved the contrasts between her and the other girls, and how age both was and wasn't a factor (they can have whatever bodies they want, but a century of experience is going to be different than twenty or forty or fifty years). Loved her granddaughter, and her cover story for going off to join Team Slut, and how each character ends up approaching the succubus thing just a little bit differently.
Amanda had been something of a cipher to me in the series to date, and I think that was intentional, given what we find out about her in this. She's sort of been a cipher to herself. Never had a real chance to explore who she is and what she wants. All she knows is she likes team sports.
I loved the slow-burn f/f romance in this. Love. It was so subtle at first that I was sure I must be reading something into the book that wasn't there because I'm a queer woman myself and am always alert for f/f possibilities. But then these little things kept happening, and I started to very cautiously get my hopes up. And what do you know, it actually is canon femslash. Really lovely and satisfying, too, at least for me.
I think this is the one where we start learning more about Delilah, too? I always knew something was up with that woman.
I loved this story, I love all these stories!! This one hit me where I live...with depression. Amanda is an army brat who never had chance to live because of a strict and sickly father and a sickly probably depressed mother. She went from them dying to the Regional Office without even noticing, no signing on the dotted line, no contract with goodies just slipped in there and never knew it for almost 10 years, then along come the sluts and life is bearable to a point but not what she needs until a little old Cricket comes along and awakens her true self. I love that they discover their needs and love together and Jennifer did it in such a way where it was sweet and slow and not graphic because this isn't the time for graphic. Of course a little upset happens because it wouldn't be a great story unless someone freaked out but it turns out good in the end. I love this authors style of writing in each of her series but the Sluts are my favs, can't wait to read Pog!!!
I hadn't read the rest of the series and could tell that there was more of a backstory that I didn't have but I don't think it really mattered. This book is great fun and I think that I might want to be Cricket when I grow up. Even though this is a light, fun book, the characters are all very well defined and believable and their personalities more or less make sense with who they are and where they come from. I think that you can tell that Stevenson has a background in counseling because the psychological issues are so well detailed and make sense with the characters' back stories, and the things that they do to deal with them don't fall back on pop-psych cliches even where they easily could have. I probably would peek in on this series every once in a while when I was feeling like I needed a bright pick-me-up, but I found that the publisher is giving away the first book for free so I might continue with it a little longer.
This is a great series! The dialog and writing are phenomenal! The characters suck you in, and make you feel like part of the story. I really enjoyed reading this book, and I highly recommend checking it out. You won't regret it!
This time it's a 98-year-old woman in a nursing home who becomes one of the team member. Her nickname is Cricket and she's very smart. She asks a lot of questions become joining the group and, once joined with them, demonstrates a love for life that is amazing. She has fun as much as she possibly can.
She also has to deal with the problem of a relative that wants her confined again. She ends up having a 'going away' party, saying that she is going to explore Brazil and maybe even more of the world. She and Amanda develop a very, very close relationship.
Until we find out just how a demon slut can actually die and what happens to her afterwards. We also find out just how much the power of Cricket's love for Amanda really is.
The thing is the books in this series aren't really sex books. Yes, there's numerous instances of causing men to get erections and sometimes have an orgasm and yes, there is some sex between Reg and Jee but even that is done tastefully.
What the book seems to be more about than anything is just how cruel life can be to women and what they will do if given a second chance. It's almost poetic in how it handles such things. Really, really good.